We All Know Where the Holy Grail Is - poem

  

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

We Know Where the Holy Grail Is

 

 

“They all say they’ve got the Holy Grail. So who’s right?”

 

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We know where the Holy Grail is

Each Sunday we see it on the Altar

As a cup, indifferent in its origins

In the catalogue of a church supply

 

A rabbi, a carpenter, and God

Walk into a rented room

And a Passover Kiddush cup is blessed

With the Viaticum, for all of us

 

A Passover seder is neither first nor last

It is forever – and here is the Cup

Thunderstorm, Texas-Louisiana Border, 15 August 2024, Photo 5

 

Thunderstorm, Texas-Louisiana Border, 15 August 2024, Photo 4

 

Thunderstorm, Texas-Louisiana Border, 15 August 2024, Photo 3

 

Thunderstorm, Texas-Louisiana Border, 16 August 2024, Photograph 2

 

Thunderstorm, Texas-Louisiana Border, 16 August 2024, Photograph 2

 

Where do Sunflowers go in August? - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Where do Sunflowers go in August?

 

 

May our love for the Sun, the will of God, be as strong as the sunflower’s…

 

-attributed to St. John of Tobolsk

 

 

With the mower I took the sunflowers down

The withered remnants, stalks and heads and seeds

Those few remaining seeds rejected by the birds

For reasons of their own

 

With the mower I circled ‘round and round

Building a thickish thatch as a sort of nest

For seeds in anticipation of autumn

The seasons know their own

 

With the mower I saw high summer gone

I mowed – or had I mown?